Hi,
I was wondering if we could finally move to a more recent version of
compilers for official win32 installers. This would of course concern
the next release cycle, not the ones where beta/rc are already in
progress.
Basically, the pros:
- we will have to move at some point
- gcc 4.* seem less buggy, especially C++ and fortran.
- no need to maintain msvcr90 vodoo
The cons:
- it will most likely break the ABI
- we need to recompile atlas (but I can take care of it)
- the biggest: it is difficult to combine gfortran with visual
studio (more exactly you cannot link gfortran runtime to a visual
studio executable). The only solution I could think of would be to
recompile the gfortran runtime with Visual Studio, which for some
reason does not sound very appealing :)
Thoughts ?
cheers,
David